Word Meanings - FORBRUISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bruise sorely or exceedingly. All forbrosed, both back and side. Chaucer.

BRUISEWORT
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
SORELY
In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.
BRUISER
1. One who, or that which, bruises. 2. A boxer; a pugilist. R. Browning. Like a new bruiser on Broughtonic aand, Amid the lists our hero takes his stand. T. Warton. 3. A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes. Knight.
BRUISE
bruisier, bruser, to break, shiver, perh. from OHG. brochison. Cf. 1. To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple
EXCEEDINGLY
To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very.
DEBRUISED
Surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut. The lion of England and the lilies of France without the baton sinister, under which, according to the laws of heraldry, they where
FORBRUISE
To bruise sorely or exceedingly. All forbrosed, both back and side. Chaucer.